Background
Laura was born on January 8, 1949 in Fulton, Missouri, United States. She was a daughter of professor Charles Steele and Eleanor Steele. Laura Evans was raised in Granville, Ohio, United States.
Laura was born on January 8, 1949 in Fulton, Missouri, United States. She was a daughter of professor Charles Steele and Eleanor Steele. Laura Evans was raised in Granville, Ohio, United States.
After graduating from Granville High School, Laura entered Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, United States, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design and a minor in French.
Laura Evans survived breast cancer. After recovery her career changed from fashion designer to spokesperson on breast cancer. In 1995 she founded Expedition Inspiration Fund for Breast Cancer Research.
A successful fashion sportswear designer and publisher of a sporting fashion forecast report, Laura Evans was also an enthusiastic sportswoman. After a lifetime spent swimming, skiing, running, hiking, and biking, at the age of forty, Evans discovered the "thrilling" challenge of climbing mountains, like 14,410-foot Mount Rainier in Washington and Mount Kanchenjunga, over twenty thousand feet tall, in the Himalayas of Nepal. What is more, this woman had an unfailing positive outlook, boundless energy, strength, intelligence, humor, zeal for living, and passion for climbing.
In 1971 Laura married Roger Evans.